Four people showing solidarity with dismissed academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça, who are on hunger strike demanding to be reinstated, in Ankara have been detained. On the other hand, 11 people were remanded in custody in Urfa.
The AKP regime's operations of political genocide against the Kurds and opposition circles continue.
ANKARA
Academic Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça who were dismissed with statutory decrees after the failed coup are staging hunger strike in Turkish capital Ankara's central Yüksel Avenue for 65 days, demanding to be reinstated. People visit the scene in solidarity with the two educators on daily basis.
As support for the two hunger strikers grows every day, police attacked the group on the avenue today and removed the flowers and banks from the scene in an effort to disperse the crowd. Police battered and detained four people here, who include academic Mehmet Mutlu from the ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University).
Hundreds are gathering at the Yüksel Avenue now in solidarity with Gülmen and Özakça on the call of democratic mass organisations.
URFA
11 people who had been detained in house raids in Urfa's Viranşehir district and rural neighborhoods 5 days ago have been referred to prosecutor's office where they gave a testimony on charges of "spreading propaganda for a terrorist organization" on social media. The detainees were later referred to court and all of them were remanded in custody for the said charges.
The 11 people were sent to Urfa Type T Closed Prison.
